Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-10

By the explosion of the boiler of To-
comotiye while standing on the track be-
fore the depot of the Philadelphia d
Baltimore road, at Chester, Pa, Tuesday
morning, one man was killed and sev era
seriously injured.
A CLOUD burst occurred III northern
Ohio Sunday afternoon. At OSerlin
about $20,000 damage was done, bridges
were carried away, railroad washed out,
houses flooded, and all in the short space
of a very few minutes.
THE admiralty court says in the case
of the fishing schooner, David j. Adams,
the American was entitled to buy bait the
same as to repair damages, or that she
could procure ice the same as water IN
the Dominion territory.
The election in Cook county, Monday,
for the six judges, resulted in an over
whelming victory for the citizens ticket.
The election was quiet and only about
one-third of the registered vote was
pOlled.
CARL SCHURz, ex secretary of interior
who fell about three months ago upon an
icy sidewalk in New York city and broke
his hip, is slowly recovering. He has
been able to sit up for several weeks and
for the last few days with the aid of
his crutches has taken short walks in
Conteral park. New York.
A MILAN paper says of Fred erick Doug
lass: "Thero is at the present time in
Rorae Frederigo Douglass, the rebel
slave, the author, the celebrated orator,
the United States senator, the man per
haps the most popular of his country on
account of his daring, his tenacity, and
of the trials he has suffered"
THE weekly crop report of the Farm
ers' Review is highly encouraging. Harvest
has already commenced in the southern
winter wheat section, and the crop is
nearly past all danger. The rains of last
improvement in spring crops and in
meadows and pastures.
FoR the purpose of creating case to
test the excise law several prominent
New York hotels on Sunday served wine
to their guests. Warrants will be sworn
out against the walters who served the
wine and they will be brought to trial
at once The judgement in their cases
will govern the course of the hotel-keep
ers in the future rs to the matter of Sun
day wine.
Hon license doesn't seem to LESSEE sa
looms very much in Chicago. In the
Seventh ward of that city there are 200
saloons, each paying $500 license, or one
saloon for every % voters; in the Eighth
ward there are 232 saloons, or one for
every - voters; the Sixth ward has one
saloon for every 10 voters, and the Ninth
and Tenth wards have one saloon for
every II voters. Beer, music and the
people must mix very freely ont there.
NINE. FURsCH MADI and Mr.. Thurber
have had a bad falling out. The trouble
which, it appears, has been brewing for
some time past, has now reached a climax,
and war has been formally declared. The
feelings mutually engendered are said to
be so bitter that there is no chance of
even a hollow truce being patched up.
Such din and discord of strife has not
crashed apon the musical world i'll many
n day.
rHE present population of New York
city according to figures lately compiled
by agents of the city health board and by
canvassers for the city directory respec.
lively, is placed at l ,6SS, ,423. The increase
since 1850 has been ISL SIC; the increase
since 1870, 746,12l. The average increase
by the excess of births over deaths with
in the city has been 10000 per year for
grafton from other countries and other
parts of this country has been about the
same.
CALIFORNIA is becoming more import
ant yearly as producer of petroleum.
The San Franci.co Chronicle gives some
figures of production which show that in
1856 there were obtained there 10,95O,O0O
gallons. The industry is still young. The
year 1879 is given as the first year of lib
eral production, when little over 10000
gallons were produced. Since then the
increase has averaged something like
100000 gallons year. Much activity
prevails at present il the petroleum fields
of southern California. pipe line from
one well to railway station has just
been completed and another one from
the Petroleum fields to Los Angeles is
talked of.